Christopher Vogler The Writers Journey
ful or violence-prone. Despite the reputation o f Hercules as a peerless hero, he has
an alarming tendency to do harm to his Mentors. In addition to painfully wounding
Chiron, Hercules got so frustrated at music lessons that he bashed in the head of his
music teacher Lycus with the first lyre ever made.
Sometimes a M e n t o r turns villain or betrays the hero. T h e movie The Tiger
Sanction shows an apparendy benevolent M e n t o r (George Kennedy) who surprisingly
turns on his student hero ( C l i n t Eastwood) and tries to kill him. T h e dwarf Regin,
in Nordic myth, is at first a M e n t o r to S i g u r d the Dragonslayer and helpfully
reforges his broken sword. But in the long run the helper turns out to be a double-
crosser. After the dragon is slain, R e g i n plots to kill S i g u r d and keep the treasure
for himself.
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